What Pierre-Joseph Proudhon thinks about war

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French socialist and anarchist thinker (1809 to 1865); author of What Is Property?

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1. c. 1840

   Our readingNations have no more right than individuals to abuse their land

   Their wordsThe right of use and abuse belongs no more to nations than to men; and the time will come when a war waged for the purpose of checking a nation in its abuse of the soil will be regarded as a holy war.

   ↗What is Property? (1840; Benjamin Tucker translation)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book